Dogs off the lead / dogma on a lead

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Littlestone Jan 11, 2009 19:57:45
Replying to nigelswift

The development will need a name, no prizes for guessing, it'll have to be "Henge View", surely?
Nah, they've gone one better and named it 'Harrington Court' ;-)

They also have the gall to state on their 'development' hoarding (see above link) that the new 'luxury' houses will be set in a World Heritage Site! Jeeze... I gave up long ago on English Heritage after they wanted to place a time capsule in Silbury! Now they're giving their tacit approval (while dithering over the future of Stonehenge, and at the same time still selling fast food there) for five new 'luxury' homes within the Avebury World Heritage Site! English 'Heritage'? Pha! More like English Can't-get-even-the-most-blindingly-obvious-issues right!

UNESCO... are you out there anywhere? Because if you are the imbeciles responsible for the Silbury time capsule/Bonds Garage development incompetence need hauling over hot coals!

M moss
moss Jan 11, 2009 22:16:45
Replying to Littlestone

Oops you sound like someone from long ago, nothing changes... Keiller in a letter to a Scottish newspaper in 1923...

"Perhaps an even more horrible side of the proposal is that a large number of houses are to be built in connection with the scheme just outside the village of Avebury itself. Even Tom Robinson, the leader of the vandals who, in the eighteenth century destroyed so many of the mighty monoliths for the purpose of utilising the stone in the erection of trumpery cottages, could not have treated this greatest monument in Britain, or, for that matter of its kind in the world, with greater disdain and indifference"

Wonder who put their foot down that time around?